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shockfic

shockfic noun: fan fiction which has shocking or disturbing elements.

Noun

shockfic (countable and uncountable, plural shockfics)

  1. (slang) Fan fiction which has shocking or disturbing elements.
    • It probably makes no sense to folks here who know nothing of my argument with an author who tries to elicit attention by writing shockfic in which she offs Mulder and Scully, or they off each other, in excruciatingly gory detail.1998 September 21, storml...@hotmail.com, “Re: Dark Nasal in: WRITING ON EMPTY”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet)
    • There is no insecurity or hidden meaning about the warnings on this story, it’s her first fanfic that she has posted, and I didn’t get to see which warnings she was putting on before it was posted. It isn’t shockfic, I mean the ending isn’t exactly a total surprise, we just made a mistake ok????1998 December 27, Bullen's, “REPOST "A keychain in the snow" 1/2”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    darkfic, sickfic

Synonyms of shockfic

Forms of shockfic

pluralshockfics

Origin of shockfic

From shock + fic.

Questions about shockfic

What does shockfic mean?
Shockfic means fan fiction which has shocking or disturbing elements.
What part of speech is shockfic?
Shockfic is a noun.
What is the plural of shockfic?
The plural of shockfic is shockfics.

Words near shockfic in the dictionary

  1. shockers
  2. shockest
  3. shocketh
  4. Shockey
  5. Shockeys
  6. shockfic
  7. shockfics
  8. shockfront
  9. shockfronts
  10. shockhead
  11. shockheaded

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